Today,
thoughts are shared on how medicine must be an instrument and tool
from the divine fullness (we also say, divinity; the Godhead; the
Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit), rather than an obstacle to the
belief of those being called to serve through Jesus Christ. Last
year around this time, I saw an eye doctor (ophthalmologist) on staff
within a university hospital here in Washington, DC, the Nation’s
Capital. I was given a prescription for eyeglasses, and scheduled
for a follow-up session later this month. I have been rendered
nearly blind for the last three weeks, however, and thought to
arrange for an earlier appointment. When I arrived for examination,
I was told I would have to be admitted to the hospital, and stay
indefinitely; that I must submit to multiple extractions of blood;
and that, based on CRT and MRI scans, my treatment would also address
an inherited condition that (to my knowledge) has never appeared in
me or others in my family (one of the University areas of expertise).
Thus, readers are asked to consider the following:
Why
would a Christian go to a doctor when there is a problem in his flesh
that requires healing?
The
Bible plainly states that the confidence, security, and well-being of
a believer comes by the workings of spiritual process, and the use of
spirit instruments and tools that include confession, fasting,
forgiveness, importuning, praise, and prayer.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your
own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your
body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
(1st Corinthians 6: 19-20, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Divine Dominion Over Nature (02/04/2019); Hezekiah
Called For Judgment (12/09/2018); Nehushtan, The Brass Serpent
(10/26/2018); Doctrine, Dropsy, and Sin (09/07/2018); Sacred
Operations By GOD (04/12/2018); Demonstrations of Spirit Truth
(02/28/2018); Another Form of Blindness (07/23/2017)
Healing
is a restoration of full functioning and the operating of the flesh
in accordance with mechanical, natural and spiritual law that occurs
through interactions of faith and the many other inseparable aspects
of spirit substance imparted to mankind that reside within the makeup
of divinity (e.g., forgiveness, holiness, longsuffering,
lovingkindness, oneness without sameness, personhood,
wisdom, wrath against sin). There must be acceptance and
acknowledgment of healing by medical science with its practices and
strategies that address health care and well-being, for the medical
practitioner will be held accountable by GOD for their correct
application and use of sacred knowledge, and what they account
as their own legitimate authority.
Because
suffering that appears through carnal, material, and social events
also is a divine tool to authenticate, challenge, exercise, and
strengthen ones endowment of faith and the uninterrupted expression
of hope, many medical practitioners argue that: (1) Spiritual things
are self-contradictory; (2) have value only as expressions of
emotion, psychological phenomena, and superstition; (3) should be
restricted to spiritual rather than physical things (e.g.,
broken-hearts; ones own past; family and marital relationships; world
peace); are neither scientifically reliable nor valid; and should be
avoided. The clarity, precision, and simplicity of academic and
secular knowledge, science, and technology should be
preferred.
Just
as doctors and surgeons can not foretell future events, nor
consistently mandate the outcomes of their own actions, Christian
ministers and their followers can not predict the future, nor command
that the outcome of events be the expression of their own desire and
self-will. At best, there can be the recognition and application of
tried and tested patterns that become familiar through experience,
practice, and study. Thus, knowing ABC is followed by EFG, one may
correctly state, XYZ is coming. For developing Christians, the cause
and origin for various actions and events within their life are to be
discerned and acknowledged on the basis of their agreement with what
has been recorded as divine prerogative, grace, eternal purpose, and
the sovereign will of GOD. The workings of devils (we say,
deception, lies, slander) will repeatedly negate and oppose the
pronouncements from God, in effect, declaring once more, thou shalt
not surely die for sin and transgression of the expressed will of GOD
that is sacred law).
The
testimony and witness from those who have experienced healing is not
be dismissed as chance, coincidence, foolishness, and hypocrisy.
Thus, I bear a cicatrix on my right arm over the blood vessel that did
not gush forth when I was slashed to the bone by someone using a
straight-razor. It also is the truth when I speak of being diagnosed
decades ago by different doctors who agreed that I had migratory
arthritis, that it could not be cured, and that it would randomly and
suddenly change the location of severe pain throughout my entire
body. A new drug, (Motrin) was prescribed, and I was told, I would
have to rely on the drug for the rest of my life. Rather than yield,
I continued insisting on the things of my belief as a Christian.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, it is plain sense that doctors and
all the others in the practice of medicine are not to be ignorant
regarding healing and its place in the life of those they offer to
serve. Before wasting the time of those seeking health solutions, or
offering a false hope, those in the medical profession—wh0
are part of the man-made system for survival and understanding that
is called the World—are
to acknowledge the limitations of their professions, and are to avoid
complaining against, condemning, and opposing divinity. The
effectiveness and value of professional health care also rests on a
platform of mutual respect and other intangibles. There must be a
profound level of sound judgment on the part of every healthcare
professional (e.g., hospital administrators; custodians; orderlies;
nurses; doctors; surgeons). There must be communication, exchange,
and sharing of insights and information among medical workers and
with the intended beneficiaries (e.g., clients, families, patients,
the general public) of the healthcare system. Most importantly,
there must be multiple relationships marked by the approval,
endorsement and validation of others as well as the extension of
trust to things assumed, elements from other belief systems that
impact the practice of medicine along with things otherwise unknown
and unseen that may require recognition and creative responses.)
Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you
according to your faith.
THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
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